Tedi Asher

Tedi Asher, Ph.D., is the Peabody Essex Museum’s in-house neuroscience researcher. She joined PEM in 2017 after completing her doctoral degree in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program at Harvard Medical School. Her training as a basic biologist helps her appreciate how mechanistic understandings of living systems can meaningfully inform our lived experience. Her current work explores ways to combine understandings of the human nervous system with caring curiosity to connect across differences and build new understandings of individuals, communities and the human experience.